The global fight against HIV/AIDS: is corruption such a big deal after all?

With the rapid increase in development assistance funding for health since 2000, corruption in healthcare attracts growing concerns, with the most recent example being the current debate about cases of fraud in grants of the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria (GFATM). However, both the develo...

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Veröffentlicht in:	AIDS (London) 2011-07, Vol.25 (12), p.1556-1557
Hauptverfasser:	MOATTI, Thomas, MOATTI, Jean-Paul
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	AIDS/HIV Biological and medical sciences Delivery of Health Care Female Financing, Government - economics Fraud Global Health HIV Infections - economics HIV Infections - epidemiology HIV Infections - prevention & control Human immunodeficiency virus Human viral diseases Humans Immunodeficiencies Immunodeficiencies. Immunoglobulinopathies Immunopathology Infectious diseases Male Medical sciences Organizations Viral diseases Viral diseases of the lymphoid tissue and the blood. Aids
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Zusammenfassung:	With the rapid increase in development assistance funding for health since 2000, corruption in healthcare attracts growing concerns, with the most recent example being the current debate about cases of fraud in grants of the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria (GFATM). However, both the development and health economics literature question the widespread assumptions that corruption is a major barrier for growth in general, and for efficiency in healthcare delivery in particular, and the extent to which coercive anti-corruption efforts are the most efficient tools for combating corruption.
ISSN:	0269-9370 1473-5571
DOI:	10.1097/QAD.0b013e32834982d5